[CentOS] How fast?

Benjamin Franz jfranz at freerun.com
Tue Oct 6 15:48:34 UTC 2009


ML wrote:
>>> I replaced a modern retail firewall/router with a 500 Mhz Celeron  
>>> with
>>> 512K RAM  (Intel 810e motherboard) and a PCI dual port ethernet card
>>> of
>>> because the 'modern' POS turnkey couldn't handle 100 mbits/second
>>> through the WAN interface. The 500Mhz celeron with CentOS5 handled
>>> that
>>> plus DNS and DHCP without ever cracking 1% CPU usage.
>>>       
>> That proves 614K should be enough for anybody.
>>     
>
> ah *snap*!
Typo noted. :) I meant 512M

-- 
Benjamin Franz



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